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No combat in the South China Sea. SUB was excluded. (Allies 8, Axis 3)

CW bombs Barcelona with one LND4. It is escorted by one FTR2. Germany can intercept the raid with one FTR2. Will they do so?


Picture from Mar/Apr '43 Impulse #14 (Allied) - Strategic bombing

Yes please, land to same hex.

No effect for the first combat round. Allies stay. Does Germany stay as well?


Picture from Mar/Apr '43 Impulse #14 (Allied) - Strategic bombing

Stay until someone is aborted or shot down, then we think again [:)]

Ok. [:)]

CW didn't have the nerve to stay after the bomber was cleared, so their FTR2 aborted before someone was aborted or shot down. [:D]


Picture from Mar/Apr '43 Impulse #14 (Allied) - Strategic bombing

The British bomber disrupt production in Barcelona.


Picture from Mar/Apr '43 Impulse #14 (Allied) - Strategic bombing

No Ground Strikes.

Rail Movement:

CW:
GARR (Algiers) -> Tunis
MIL (Tunis) -> Gabes

USA:
INF (Oran) -> Algiers

Land movement:

CW move closer to the German defenders in Spain.

USA capture New Gerorgia in the Solomons.

Some hexes in southern Spain are liberated.

US forces in Morocco move towards Tangier.

Over to Lord Warspite for the second part of our impulse.


Picture from Mar/Apr '43 Impulse #14 (Allied) - Land movement

It is nice to see this game continuing.

Mar/Apr 1943
Impulse: 14 (Allies)

Land Movement:
Soviet Union

Little movement but troops west of Tula have a minor re-shuffle.

United States

In Finland a Division moves forward

Communist China

Minor movement behind the front lines

Debark:
United States

An ART lands in Tangier.

Air Rebase:
United States

1. A fighter in Tunisia heads for Gabes
2. A Naval bomber transfers from Spain to Morocco

Soviet Union

The Soviets move some of their bombers closer to the front line

Reorganisation:
Commonwealth

The TRS in the Red Sea reorganises the 1st SA INF.


End of Turn: Turn ends on on less than a 9 (a 2 is thrown)

Mar/Apr 1943
End of Turn

The Partisan throws:

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

It is nice to see this game continuing.

+1

End of Turn Instructions.

Italy
Send a saved oil from Turin to production. Should give 14 BP's.

Japan
Send saved oil at Sendai to production. Should give 15 BP's.

Stay at Sea
Italy none stay at sea. Return all to La Spezia.

Japan - 2 CA's in China Sea 4-box. Units in South China Sea 3-box. Sub in Coral Sea. Return the units from China Sea to Osaka.

Oil Use

Italy reorg all 1 point, using oil from Turin.

Japan reorg all (1.1) using oil in Batavia.

Production

Italy
FTR-2 x2
ARM
Pilot x2

Japan
Pilot
CVP-1
FTR-2
CAV
Para
CPx2

Reinforcements
Pilots to C.202 Milan. Re.2000 to Palermo.
INF to Rome

Japan
INF to Osaka
MAR to Fukuoka
GARR and CP to Tokyo

End of Turn instructions.

Production prelim
2 oils are saved, save them both to Berlin. Use one oil saved in Budapest for production giving 41 BPs.

RTB
FTR from Baltic Sea to Rostock.

Oil use
Reorg all (1,1) using one oil in Budapest.

Scarp FTR3

Production (41)
Scrap He111 (1938), Do217E (1940)
MTN
ENG
GAR
MOT
MECH
2x ARM div
3x Pilot
LND4
FTR3
FTR2

Reinforcements
Place pilots to Bf109G and Do17Z
Sub to Kiel
LND3 to Königsberg
FTR2 to Hanover
9-6 ARM, 9-4 INF and 5-2 ART to Königsberg
8-5 ARM and 8-4 MOT to Saarbrucken
5-3 INF and 7-6 MECH to Breslau

Ormster and AllenK - can I ask you to have a look at the Minor Conflict thread please? I'm being a bit of a numpty (as usual) and am struggling to understand what we agreed on Strategic Bombing and why?

Can you help a muppet in his frail dotage?

Thanks!

Hello
Is it just my imagination, or is Orm's luck in air to air combat slightly disappointing for the Allies?
Maybe you should scrap all those unreliable shiny fancy new Typhoons and Lightnings and stick to your trusty Gladiators

Good to see the AAR proceed

Best regards

The air combat has been somewhat disappointing to the Western Allies. However, I am sure that all players face disappointments from time to time. In part, it is how you adapt, and respond, to them that makes the most difference.

So no, we will not retire the new Typhoons, and Lightnings, in favour of the Gladiators. We will continue developing new aircraft types. And if our air superiority isn't enough. Then we will strive to become even more superior.

I had a minor EOT trouble. SNAFU, if you will. I hope to muster the energy to solve this, and get this game continuing soon. Maybe not before Eastern. But surely soon thereafter.

I was going to make an attempt to revive this game, but I didn't find the end of turn instructions for USSR, and China. Any idea where I can find them?

Mar/Apr 1943
End of Turn Malarchy (USSR and China)

If there is a partisan then place in Cheloo (72,150)

Preliminary Production:

China

9 points to production = 11 + 1 saved
9 Oil saved at start

USSR

3 x Saved Oil (Bratsk (40,130), Kuybyshev (45,80) Ashqabad (71,86)
28 points to production = 49 + 2 received

Stay At Sea: None

Return to Base:
China

Kittyhawk to Haiphong

Reorganisation:
China

Reorganise all for 0.1 (0 Oil Expended)

Breakdown:
USSR

MECH in (44,57)

Production
China

1 x LND
1 x PIL
1 x MECH
1 x ENG DIV

USSR

4 x PIL
1 x LND (4)
1 x LND (3)
1 x FTR (3)
1 x FTR (2)
1 x MECH
1 x ARM
1 x AT
1 x ENG DIV
1 x PARA
1 x MIL
1 x MAR

Reinforcement:
China

Nanning: MOT

USSR

Assign pilots to the Mitchell, YAK 9D and IL-2M3

Bryansk: 8-3INF, 7-5MOT
Kursk: 8-3INF, 6-4MOT
Novgorod: Ski DIV
Leningrad: 3-2ART
Yaroslavl: PARA
Rostov: Mitchell, YAK-9D
Smolensk: IL-2M3

CHI COM

Tsinan: 5-5MOT